I'm working on an early styled B for a friend. There was no gasket under the top cover of the pedestal and none is shown in the Parts Catalog. Is that an error in the Parts Catalog? Sure seems to me that there should be a gasket there. Also was very surprised to not find the two bearing cones for the steering shaft. The cups are there but no bearing cones and no pieces of bearings that would be there if they had been totally worn to shreds. There was so much play in the steering that it was possible to rotate the steering wheel with fore and aft shaft movement of about 1.5 inches before the front wheels would show any side to side movement.